2025 Draft Agenda
Keynote Speakers Invited
Tuesday March 4, 2025
IET Savoy Place, London UK |
9:00am – 9:30am
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Introduction / Welcome
U.S. DoD, OIOP – Mr. James Jabinal, Director for Strategy and International Partnerships
UK MOD, MSE – Air Commodore Matt Bressani OBE, RAF
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9:30am – 10:00am
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OSD Policy Senior Official (To Be
Confirmed)
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10:30am – 11:00am
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Luke Pollard, MP (confirmed)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
for the Armed Forces
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11:00am – 11:30am
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Maj. Gen. Peter Andrysiak, Jr. (Confirmed)
U.S. Army - Chief of Staff, United States European Command
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11:30am – 12:00pm
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UK Flag Officer (To Be Confirmed)
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Lunch (included with registration fee)
Lunch Exposure Sponsor:
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1:00pm – 2:30pm
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Deterrence: Exploring the Present and
Future Threat of Disinformation
Moderator: LtCol James Chandler Phd, UK Army, Chatham House Fellow
Panelists:
- Chris Riley, NATO HQ
- Todd Helmus, RAND Corporation
- Jacob Udo, CIDC, American University
in Bulgaria
- Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon
University
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2:30pm – 3:00pm
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Break
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3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Detection: Detecting, Identifying,
Tracking and Mitigating Disinformation
Moderator: David Cornell, Microsoft
Threat Analysis Center
Panelists:
- David Lynch, Sayari Labs
- Ryan Campbell, TRM Labs
- Lisa Kaplan, Alethea
- Dr Richard Davis, CEO Artis Magi
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4:30pm – 4:50pm
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Day 1 Close
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Wednesday March 5, 2025
IET Savoy Place, London UK |
8:45am – 9:00am
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Welcome Back
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9:00am – 9:30am
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Marie-Doha Besancenot (confirmed)
NATO Assistant Secretary General for
Public Diplomacy
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9:30am – 10:15am
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French Perspectives on the
Disinformation Kill Chain
French National Defense University
- Lieutenant -colonel Paul Janin, French
Army
- Lieutenant-colonel Gregory Frutos,
French National Gendarmerie
- Commandant Francois Grezet-Besset
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10:15am – 10:45am
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Break
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10:45am – 12:00pm
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Strengthening Resilience &
Assessments: Promoting Understanding and
Effective Resistance
Moderator: Brigadier Rupert Evetts, UK Ministry of Defence
Panelists:
- Jacob Coakwell, U.S. EUCOM J39
- Ben Kessler, Meltwater
- Becky Fair, Two-Six
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Lunch (included with registration fee)
Lunch Exposure Sponsors:
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1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Current and Future Capabilities:
Challenges in Research and Development
for OIE & the Role of AI
Moderator: Rory, Kinane, Deputy Head, Secretary of State’s Office for Net Assessment and Challenge, UK MOD
Panelists:
- Dr. Jonathan Pfautz, Peraton Labs
- Dr . Victoria Romero, U.S. DARPA
- Paul Burkard, Blackbird.ai
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2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Countering Disinformation with OIE:
Breaking the Disinformation Kill Chain
Moderator: United Kingdom Moderator
Panelists:
- Matthew Sheiffer, AFRICOM
- Ivana Stradner, Foundation for Defense
of Democracies
- Paul M H Buvarp, Norway Defense
Research Establishment
- Dmytro Plieshakov, CEO - Osavul
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3:00pm – 3:30pm
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Break
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3:30pm – 4:45pm
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Disinformation Rapid-Response:
Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: Dominic Nicholls, Daily Telegraph
Panelists:
- James Heappey, Former UK Minister of
State for the Armed Forces
- Elisabeth Braw, American Enterprise
Institute
- Lt. General Andrew Harrison (Ret),
British Army Senior Officer
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4:45pm – 4:55pm
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Working Group Orientation / Close
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Thursday March 6, 2025
IET Savoy Place, London UK
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UNCLASSIFIED WORKING GROUPS
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There are 2 working groups each with am/pm sessions. Participants can attend each and choose presentations to observe during the working groups.
- 9:00am – 12:00am:
- OIE Assessments
- Counter-Disinformation Framework
- 1:00 pm - 4:00pm:
- OIE Assessments
- Counter-Disinformation Framework
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SESSIONS
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9:00am – 10:00am
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Sviatoslav Hnizdovskyi, Founder and CEO
- OpenMinds
Measuring the Effectiveness of
Counter-Influence Operations and
Strategic Communications: Learnings and
Insights from the Russo-Ukrainian War
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10:00am – 11:00am
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Dr. John Kelly, Founder, Exec Chairman -
Graphika
Leveraging Cyber-Social Terrain
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11:00am – 12:00pm
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Harry Williams - ORB International
Ground Truth: Value of On-the-Ground
Polling in Assessing Disinformation
Impact in Russia
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Lunch (on your own)
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1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Carrick Longley - ZenithFlow
Accelerating IO Decision Cycles Through
Human-AI Teaming and Multi-Agent Systems
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2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Christopher Paul - Naval Postgraduate
School
Six Case Studies of the Effectiveness of
Foreign Malign Influence: Stakeholder
Impressions vs. Empirical Analysis
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Thursday March 6, 2025
CLASSIFIED WORKING GROUPS
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- 9:00am – 10:00am:
- Intelligence Brief
- Intelligence Framework & Methodology Brief
- Sub-working group assignments
- 10:00am – 10:30am: Break
- 10:30am – 12:30pm:
- Disinformation collaboration framework and authorities matrix
- Table Top Exercise prep
- 12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch
- On own (Armoury House Recommended)
- 1:30pm – 3:30pm:
- Table Top Exercise
- Hotwash/Lessons Learned
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DoD conference ID #20250302934